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N.Y. PHONE (Local Call) RE 2-5450 ever heard of a fine restaurant without a kitchen? more chefs than waitresses? and a Japanese maitre d' named Rocky? BEDIHADA 01 TDHYD ' EAST 120 E. 56th St. WEST 61 W. 56th 5t CHICAGO l66 E. Supenor St. 664 9643 In New Yark City Reservations: L T 1-0930 , .,.- wr-"\;< '\ Karl E. Meyer, a foreign correspond- ent for the Washington Post, wrote that television discourages contentIous- ness, and "favors the bland vendors of Fact-the Huntleys and the Cronkites who convey a personal opinion only through inscrutable movements of the eyebrow or a slight modulation of a mellifluous voice." Such ohservations are offered frequently, despite the evi- dence to the contrary that is displayed regularly on the network news pro- grams. Huntley and Brinkley both deliver outright editorials when they are upset or irritated by something, and their correspondents in the field often go far beyond the newspaper and wire-service notion of objectivity. F or some time now, it has been almost impossible to watch the Cronkite show or the Huntley-Brinkley show without seeing a reporter standing in an out- door setting somewhere and deliver- ing a little homily on race relations or making historical, political, and tactical j udgmen ts about the war in Vietnam. To take only one instance, Kiker was not bashful about including his personal judgments in his reporting from Viet- nam last February. Much of what he said on the air could have appeared in a newspaper only as part of an editorial or a news analysis by a columnist. In one report, he said, "South Vietnam's cities will never be the same because of these guerrilla attacks, and neither win the war. These attacks represent a ma- jor turning point-a point equal in hIs- torical importance to the beginning of the bombing of the North, or the large-scale introduction of U.S. troops. . . . At press briefings, the U.S. Mission is trying to give the impres- sion that an this is just a temporary setback of no major consequence. Until these attacks came, Ameri- can officials here were brag- ging about the great progress being made in the war-bragging so much that new charges of a lack of credibil- ity are hound to result.... Despite official claims of great progress, Viet- nam's rural-pacification program was making little progress even before the attacks. Now its very eXIstence is threat- ened. . . . It's inevitable that the South Vietnamese Army will be clustered more closely in these cities, because the government simply cannot afford to take more chances with its key urban strongholds. Th's would mean that a diminished American force would be fighting the Vietcong alone for control of the countryside. And that's not the way this war is going to be won." AUGUST ,3, 19 b 8 Perhaps the most serious criticIsm of television news is that-hampered by its need for pictures, for brevity, and for appeal to a national, mass audi- ence-it is superficial. TelevIsion news- men agree that their coverage often is superficial, compdred with that of the Tirnes, but they are tired of being com- pared with the Times. "The whole approach of this sort of criticism is wrong," a network correspondent said recently . "We aren't supplying an in- ferior sort of newspaper coverage- we're supplying television coverage. The newspaperman considers pictures an annoying necessity for us, but we consider them simply part of the me- dium, and the source of much of its impact Being condescending toward us for our reliance on pictures is like knocking a newspaper article for not being a book, or a movie for not being a novel. Our coverage just gives an- other aspect of the newS. It's only part of the news, but sometimes it's an im- portant part." Reuven Frank had something similar in mind when he wrote, in his 1 963 memo, "The hIgh- est power of television journalism is not in the transmission of information but in the transmission of experience.. . . There are events which exist in the _L\.merican mind and recollection pri- marily because they were reported on regular television news programs. We ha ve found a dimension of information which is not contained in words alone. The rebellion in Hungary; Little Rock; the Berlin Wall; Suez; the 1960 Democratic primaries; Khrushchev's visit; de Gaulle; the hurricane at Lake Charles, Louisiana. . . Each memher of the audience has his own list. Television brings to re- porting the transmissIon of experience, and here it is matchless. But not all of the major stories of the past doz- en years were created by television. The Supreme Court nine-to-nothing decision in Brown vs. Board of Edu- cation worked a major permanent change In American society, but tele- vision could not report the decision it- self as well as newspapers could. The failure of any Communist country to feed itself may be the climactic fact of this century. It is primarily a story for l11agazines and books." As surely as television news pro- grams must have pictures, they must have a large, national audience, in order to dttract sponsors and survive. This means limiting the selection of stories to those which the producers consider of national or international